Vulnerability Details CVE-2007-3576
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme names with 10 or more characters, which might allow remote attackers to bypass certain XSS protection schemes. NOTE: other researchers dispute the significance of this issue, stating "this only works when typed in the address bar.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.174
EPSS Ranking 94.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://groups.google.com/group/php-ids/browse_thread/thread/3ec15f69d6b3dba0
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070702/ie60-protocol-guessing/
- http://osvdb.org/45813
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C13209%2C13218
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=375
- http://groups.google.com/group/php-ids/browse_thread/thread/3ec15f69d6b3dba0
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070702/ie60-protocol-guessing/
- http://osvdb.org/45813
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C13209%2C13218
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=375
Products affected by CVE-2007-3576
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6